Staff Software Engineer

United States of America, New York, New York💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-12 → 2026-10-02

Core

Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power a search-centric document analysis platform for legal and capital markets professionals.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend-leaning Full Stack)

Builds

Scalable backend services, data processing pipelines, and API primitives for document insights.

Domain

Legal technology / Capital markets / Document analysis

Required skills

Backend systems architecture, API design, Node.js/Python/Go, TypeScript/React, SQL/NoSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, distributed systems, event-driven architectures

Preferred skills

Microservices, message queues, single-tenant architectures, data processing pipelines, functional programming, monorepo management

Responsibilities

Design scalable backend services and APIs, write high-performance server-side code, define API contracts, build third-party and ML system integrations, optimize data-intensive operations, contribute to frontend components, improve CI/CD and developer experience (via careerplan.io/jobs/JREQ199747-staff-software-engineer-at-thomsonreuters)

Seniority

Staff, high-leverage IC with architectural ownership

About thomsonreuters

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.